History Today

Paul Martin considers what message our mania for collecting has for history in post-modern times.

Excavations at Catalhoyuk, Turkey

The celebrated King of the Franks may have become the first Holy Roman Emperor, but what other impact and legacies did he leave Dark Age Italy? Ross Balzaretti investigates.

Lorna Walker discusses the iconography of images decorating the Cloister in Monreale and the debate about social order that it contains.

Alan Taylor examines how the social concerns and ambitions of the new republic and those of the author of Last of the Mohicans intertwined - and how they gave him the canvas to become the United States' first great novelist.

The role of British architects in 19th century Russia: Jeremy Howard and Sergei Kuznetsov reveal how the pleasantest sight that some of Dr Johnson's Scotsmen saw was not the high road to England but the sea passage to Russia, where they found fame and fortune making a key contribution to urban remodelling and architecture.

John Carr questions whether re-enacting classical theatre at historic sites is a good thing.

Denise Silvester-Carr explores Eltham Palace and its connections with the Courtauld family.

Peter Stead looks at how a film that had British audiences chuckling, had a tarter subtext on social and class divisions at the end of the 1950s